Posted by Erik Hanson on January 25, 2000, at 14:14:58
In reply to Re: Give Me a Break!, posted by Rose on January 25, 2000, at 1:58:59
First of all, I'm not offering words of wisdom. If I wanted to offer my expertise in dealing with depression, I'd include it in a journal article or Ph.D-level paper, like the one I wrote last year. I went to Harvard for undergraduate, until I had to take a medical leave for depression and suicidality. If that isn't good enough for you, you pathetic asshole, how's this--I have a goddamn agent, and you don't. You should be glad to have the chance to have your set of unintelligent gripes and failed attempts at dealing with your own depression included in a real book. You sound like one of those bitter, piece-of-shit people who blames his psychiatrist for not "curing" him. I don't know why I bothered to post the request to this bulletin board in the first place. I mean, it was an idea for a book proposal, and now it's becoming clear that you all are much too disorganized and absent-minded to actually write up a little account of your rather run-of-the-mill depressions. And if you think you deserve more than 50 dollars for such an account, you need a dose of reality. Given that it would take you about an hour tops to write something, and considering that if I were to collect and read through and edit hundreds or even upwards of a thousand similar postings, the amount of time I'd spend, and the probable money I'd get for a book contract, would mean that fifty dollars was more than generous. But since this proposal is probably never gonna get off the ground, you can shove your accounts where the sun don't shine.
Erik
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